The American Historical Association needs to figure out a way to start imposing sanctions on departments that do what I just witnessed at the annual meeting’s headquarters hotel. In the section on interviewing in the Association’s Guidelines for the Hiring Process, point #4 reads: “Interviews should take place in a professional setting. The AHA strongly…
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At the AHA (Thursday afternoon, part 2)
The final full session of the pre-conference workshop at the AHA annual meeting, three presenters showed us work in progress. Jan Reiff asked whether we have moved beyond Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 (transforming all of the web into a database, the Semantic Web, etc.)? (Not in the history business, I’d say–but a few of…
At the AHA (Thursday afternoon, part 1)
The afternoon sessions in the pre-conference workshop included more examples of matured projects, as well as examples of work in progress. During the first session, Tom Ewing showed the Digital History Reader project from Virginia Tech, Steven Mintz showed his Digital History project, and my colleague Kelly Schrum showed off several of our projects from…
At the AHA (Thursday Morning)
I’m at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association today and tomorrow. Today’s event is a pre-conference workshop: “The Intersection of Teaching and Research in the New Media.” In his Keynote Address, Ed Ayers talked about two new projects that he is working on–one that has students at multiple campuses writing what he called…